The guesthouse of the Dawn Veil pack was usually a place of quiet comfort. Cozy rooms, roaring fireplaces, and windows that opened up to endless, rolling hills and thick forests. It was peaceful—perfect for resting, regrouping, and finding calm. But tonight? It was chaos.
Aria had been walking for what felt like hours after leaving Xander in that clearing. The cold night air bit at her skin, but it wasn’t the chill that made her shiver. It was the silence—the deep, aching silence that followed the words she had said: "I’m pregnant. It’s your baby." She had bared her soul, and he hadn’t said a thing, just stared at her, wide-eyed and blank. That silence was the same one that haunted her for years. The same silence that made her leave in the first place. And she just knew, deep inside, it w
